{"id":979,"date":"2016-08-19T14:01:50","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T12:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/?p=979"},"modified":"2016-08-19T14:01:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T12:01:50","slug":"new-block-metar-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"New Block &#8211; METAR Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys,<\/p>\n<p>I created a new block for showing current conditions grouped by countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Yahoo current conditions block\/plugin is problematic, I have mentioned this before. Yahoo is unreliable in accessibility and to make things worse, reports completely non-sense pressure data.<\/p>\n<p>It took me a while to find a usable solution and I decided to use <strong>METAR reports<\/strong>, which are much more reliable and accurate (but also more difficult to work with and they do not contain all the variables Yahoo did).<\/p>\n<p>However, I still think that many of you will find this new block useful and <strong>there is lot of things I did not use for now because the block is limited in space and you can therefore expect also a plugin in the future based on this, which will show much more and have many more cool new features<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Main features<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>current weather conditions grouped by countries for official METAR stations<\/li>\n<li>temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed, wind direction, wind gust, apparent temperature, dew point<\/li>\n<li>summary statistics for country as a whole<\/li>\n<li>automatic unit conversions based on template setup<\/li>\n<li>auto caching<\/li>\n<li>fully localized<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Data is available for <strong>all countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania, and South America<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meteotemplate.com\/template\/indexBlockDemoWide.php?block=metarWeather\" target=\"_blank\">DEMO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No need to install, just upload to your Blocks directory and add to the homepage.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 30px;display: inline-block;\"><input id=\"979\" style=\"float: right;max-width: 50px;\" src=\"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-advanced-pdf\/asset\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"#TB_inline?height=230&amp;width=400&amp;inlineId=examplePopup1\" title=\"Export pdf to your Email\" class=\"thickbox export-pdf\" type=\"image\" value=\"Export to PDF\" \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys, I created a new block for showing current conditions grouped by countries. The Yahoo current conditions block\/plugin is problematic, I have mentioned this before. Yahoo is unreliable in accessibility and to make things worse, reports completely non-sense pressure data. It took me a while to find a usable solution and I decided to &#8230; <a title=\"New Block &#8211; METAR Weather\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/?p=979\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Block &#8211; METAR Weather<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[85],"tags":[252],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/weather-e1476276280871.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meteotemplate.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}